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June 27th, 2025 08:12
PowerStore 500T and Node A (pingable?)
Simple question, should node A's iSCSI IPs be pingable when node B is active?
I ask because currently I have a number of ESXi hosts using ISCSI and connected to the Global Storage IP of each node. However when the ESXI host is scanned I only pick up paths for Node B and NOT node A? I can see all the storage (datastores) fine. The static IPs for the SAN appear in the ESXI host for both nodes A & B but I only get node B paths and the SAN is complaining the hosts are only connected to one node :(
Any idea?
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DELL-Sam L
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June 27th, 2025 16:43
Hello HistoricD,
Is your Powerstore direct connected to your hosts or are you using a switch? What are the errors that you are seeing on your powerstore 500t system? Which ports are you using on the I/O module of your Powerstore 500T? When you configured your iSCSI setting did you follow PowerStore T and Q Networking Guide for Storage Services? If you didn’t or want to review that your configuration ios correct then here is a link to that guide. https://dl.dell.com/content/manual48021614-dell-powerstore-powerstore-t-and-q-networking-guide-for-storage-services.pdf?language=en-us
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June 28th, 2025 17:37
All ports needs to be "pingable".
Do you setup a single Subnet or multible config? Until PowerStoreOS 2.x comes out the Single Subnet was the preferred solutions and than it changes to a multible one. This ends up that with ESX no iSCSI Bonding needs to be configured.
Do you place your Storage Netzworks into the BOND0 (the Ports 0+1 on the Mezz) or do you have an extra IO Modul within your 500T?
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Joerg
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June 30th, 2025 10:21
Problem fixed. I had added all four ports from Node A & B the Powerstore into a single port-channel which is wrong. I have now moved Node A into its own port-channel with node B in its own port channel with both port-channels in the same vlt-port-channel across the two DELL S5248F switches.
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